Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1887-12-30
Iowa, Pennsylvania and New York
Having a Lively Tussle With
Jack Frost.
The First Case of Fatal Freezing for
Years Reported From Aus
tin, Texas.
Dakota and Minnesota Blessed With
an Abundance of Bracing
Atmosphere.
Northwestern Weather,

zero reports in to-night's weather bulletin
were the following: St. Paul 10, Huron 20,
Moorhead 26, st. Vincent "a, Swift Current
IL, Fort Totten 26, Fort Garry 40, Mime
dora 36. Bismarck 22.
ST. PAUL, Dec. 29.-The thermometer in
| the signal service Office showed that it was
colder this morning than at any previous
time this winter. At O'clock it stood %
below. This mornings cold wave stretched
down from the northwest and reached a
point much farther south than severe cold
was expected. Throughout Minnesota the
mercury generally reached point from
10 to 200 below zero. 1t was 20 below even
to the southern part of the state. In some
parts of the northwest it was as low as 40.
Indications are that it will be much warmer
tomorrow.
TO-night's weather bulletin shows that
the temperature throughout the northwest
is mOderating somewhat. The following
are all below zero: st. Paul 10 Moorhead
IL, st. Vincent "a, Winnipeg %, Bismarck
9, Fort Totten 20, Qu'Appelle 18.
PEMBINA, Dec. 29.-Last night mercury
fell to 81 below.
IN IOWA.
BURLINGTON, Dec. 28-Last night was
the coolest of the season. The thermometer
registered 16o below. Railroad trains were
badly delayed.
DAVENPORT, Ia. Dec. 2S.-A cold snap
struck this place yesterday afternoon, mer-
curry falling AZ degrees in twenty-four
hours, registering 12o below zero this morn
ing at o'clock. Trains were nearly all
delayed.
Sioux CITY, Dec. 28-Mercury at p. m.
is at 1So below and still falling. Trains
are all behind time and none in on the Illi-
nois Central since last evening.
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
P1TTsBURG, Dec. pa blizzard struck
this city this evening and mercury dropped
80 degrees in three hours. At 10 o'clock
tonight it was 90 above zero and still fall
ing. 1t is probably that zero will be
reached before morning. The highest
hour.
LYNCHBURG, Pa, Dec. 29.-Weather
was extremely cold last night and the ther-
mOmeter registered 19 degrees above zero
this morning. Reports from the southwest
say the weather is very cold and the ther-
mometer registers below zero.
IN NEW YORK.
New YORK. Dec. 28.-The heaviest gale
and sea that has prevailed in years at
Goney Island visited that desolate resort
tonight. Many small buildings were
swept out to sea and workmen were set at
work strengthening the foundations of the
Hotel Brighton, which building was in
momentary danger Of beiug carried away.
New YORK, Dec. 29.-The cold wave
which struck this city early last evening
is still here and the wind continues at a
velocity OF thirty miles an hour. The low
est point reached was IA degrees above
zero at 2 o'clock a. m.
FROZEN TO DEATH IN TEXAS.
AUSTIN, Dec. 29-Henry Wise, a farmer,
was yesterday found frozen to death ten
miles from this city. Wise was returning
home with a team and while crossing a
muddy bottom fell out of his wagon, bury
ing his head and shoulders in the mud, in
which position he was found. It is thought
he was drunk when he fell from the wagon.
His mules were also frozen stiff while
standing in the mud beside Wise's body.
This is the first death by freezing which
ever occurred in this section.
A CANADIAN SNOW STORM.
QUEBEC, Dec. ga heavy snow storm
set in yesterday and has continued during
to-day and tonight with unabated fury.
In some places snow is drifted to depth
of seven or eight feet, while about eigh-
teen inches OF snow has fallen on the level.